New Website to Fulfill Void Caused by Google

westernshootingjournal.com ^ | 11/24/2014 | F Jardim

[w1n1]

Everyone knows that we can buy guns online, but not many are aware that the big search engines like Google and Bing sort of push search results for "guns for sale" farther down the search listing.

Not saying that its completely gone in the search. But seems like the search engines are trying to discourage the searches for anything related to gun for sales query. Oh yes, by the way if you're trying to sell through Amazon, same thing not a chance. Twitter too has been on the same wagon, trying to create ads to run on Twitter and if its related to gun products. Twitter will ban you!

What do you do if you're in this line of business? Mikhail Orlov, the CEO of an online and bricks-and mortar shooting-sports retail store in Arlington, Texas. He saw an opportunity, if Amazon would not sell his products, he would make an Amazon style marketplace for the shooting sports industry himself. Mikhail and two of his friends founded their first online store in 2009, which is today among the top 500 fastest-growing companies in America, stocking 12,000 unique products and having real-time, on demand access to another 300,000 items.

Their goal is to aggregate all the inventory data from all firearms products distributors (Sports South, Big Rock Sports, Green Supply, Ellett Brothers, Gun Accessory Supply, Davidson’s, Zander’s, etc.) into a single, constantly updating, consolidated database that customers can easily search.

One of the aspects of his website that intrigues many is that the searches will give you real-time inventory and pricing. Like the stock market, they could fluctuate from day to day. Read more about online gun store here.

[gaijin]

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[109ACS]

I like http://www.gunbroker.com/

Been around for years.

[MeganC]

We just keep buying all of our fully-automatic junk-gun revolver assault weapons at gun shows from guys who sell them out of their trunks with no background checks...and it’s all legal because of the ‘gun show loophole’.

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[JoeFromSidney]

If they list private sales, with only a small charge to seller, this could really be helpful to people wanting to buy from a private seller in their home state.

[bk1000]

Try www.armslist.com. kind of like Craigslist for guns. There are sales by dealers and private individuals. I met a guy and got a deal on a Kahr CM9. ..then I just had to go boating. Dang it!

[PGalt]

: ) darn accidents. Thanks to the links; post. BTTT!

[dangerdoc]

I like gun genie at galleryofguns. You can look up nearly all production guns, check availability, order it and pick it up at your local dealer at a discount.

[JoeFromSidney]

Never tried them, but thanks for the recommendation. I'll check it out.

[NorthMountain]

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[NewJerseyJoe]

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